Sam Seaborn

Samuel Norman "Sam" Seaborn (1964-) was the White House Deputy Communications Director from 1999 to 2003, Senior Counselor from 2003, and Deputy Chief of Staff in 2007.

Biography
Samuel Norman Seaborn was born in Laguna Beach, California in 1964, and he graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University and the Duke University School of Law. He was editor of the Duke Law Journal at Duke, and he was a staffer for several congressmen and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. He worked at the Dewey Ballantine law firm in New York City before working for Gage Whitney, and he was later convinced by his old friend Josh Lyman to join Josiah Bartlet's 1998 presidential campaign. Seaborn served as Bartlet's Deputy Communications Director from 1999 to 2003, and he left the White House for an unsuccessful bid for the US House of Representatives in California's 47th district, losing to Republican Party candidate Chuck Webb. He was declined promotion to Senior Counselor, and he worked at a law firm in California until 2007, when Lyman invited him back to the White House to serve as Deputy Chief of Staff.